Dear Visitor:

Embracing the Child is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting literacy and working with disadvantaged and at-risk children and youth through our Library Development Program. ETC works "in the trenches" with reading-committed partner nonprofits serving the most vulnerable kids at front-line facilities like juvenile detention centers, emergency shelters, after-school care and summer daycamp programs in inner-city or poverty-pocket communities.

Thanks to fundraising efforts, loyal supporters—and dedicated volunteers, our effectiveness has generated ever-escalating numbers of partners, books and readers—and a daunting Waiting List for 2006. Our ability to create literature rich environments skyrocketed in 2005-new books valued at $135,000 reached over 12,000 kids in Pennsylvania alone! [See our newsletter for pictures of libraries we've developed]

Every child deserves a chance to achieve their highest level of accomplishment and potential. As funding for non-profits becomes more scarce, and impending budget cuts in literacy will again threathen reading programs throughout the United States, we are more and more in debt to those who believe and support out efforts to develop libraries and reading programs for our most vulnerable children and youth.

Most sincerely,

Patricia C. Kindermann
President